Honestly, I've only skimmed the article, but this comment rubbed me the wrong way right off the bat. The article (discussing use of Kafka) doesn't seem to have any direct relation to WeWork's failure.

There is a lot that you can learn especially from businesses that failed.

Just because the company wasn't successful does not mean you should discount everything related to that company, especially when the content and lessons are technical, and the business failed for non-technical reasons (shady business practices and self-dealing).

Just getting in here to say someone should edit the HN title to have a date. Hearing about success at WeWork now is akin to being in accounting and finance in the late 90s doling out praise for Arthur Anderson.

Maybe it should have been an article on: "You Don't Need WeWork"